Kitabı oku: «A Little Princess / Маленькая принцесса. А1», sayfa 3

He explained to Miss Minchin that his lawyer Mr. Barrow would pay for everything. He would write to Sara twice a week. The last rule was simple toɔ:Sara gets anything she wants.

When he left, Sara was sitting on the floor of her sitting room. Not every girl at the school had her own room, but Sara did. When Miss Minchin sent her sister, Miss Amelia, to see what the child was doing, she found the door locked.

“What a weird child!” she said to her sister when she went downstairs again.

“She is a spoiled child, that's for sure,” answered Miss Minchin. “Sitting in her room in her ridiculously expensive clothes. Her father treats her like a little princess. Well, she will look like a princess at the head of the line when we take the schoolchildren to church on Sunday.”

Glossary

aɡain [ǝ'ɡen] – adv опять; вновь

answer ['a:nsǝ] – n ответ; v отвечать

ask [a:sk] – v спрашивать; просить

brinɡ (brouɡht, brouɡht) [brɪŋ] – v приносить; приводить

cab ['kkb] – n такси

come (came, come) [kʌm] – v приходить

downstairs [daun'steǝz] – adv вниз

enouɡh [ɪ'nʌf] – adv достаточно

enter ['entǝ] – v входить

explain [ɪk'spleɪn] – v объяснять

feel (felt, felt) [fi:l] – v чувствовать, ощущать

ɡo (went, ɡone) [ɡǝu] – v идти; ходить; становиться

lock [lɒk] – n замо́к; v запирать на замок; закрывать

lonɡ [lɒŋ] – adj длинный; долгий

odd [ɒd] – adj странный

parent ['peǝr(ǝ)nt] – n родитель

place [pleɪs] – n место; v помещать

remember [rɪ'membǝ] – v вспоминать, запоминать, помнить